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Est 2016 London Borough of Richmond upon Thames Edition 223 Contents TickerTape TwickerSeal C0VID-19 Borough View The George, Twickenham Marble Hill Marvels Farewell & Good Luck Paul Martin Letters REMEMBER! £sd Twickers Foodie Reviews Traveller’s Tales WIZ Tales - Myanmar Film Screenings Football Focus Contributors TwickerSeal Graeme Stoten Simon Fowler Marble Hill House Alan Winter Maurice Parry-Wingfield Green Party Diabetes UK Alison Jee Mark Aspen St Mary’s University Richmond College Doug Goodman World InfoZone Shona Lyons Bruce Lyons Richmond Film Society James Dowden RFU NAO LBRuT Editors Berkley Driscoll Teresa Read 12th February 2021 Blackbird, White Snow Photo by Berkley Driscoll TickerTape - News in Brief London Overground Sunday 14 February No service between Richmond and Willesden Junction Use Tube and local buses. Rail replacement buses will run between Gunnersbury and Willesden Junction. Bushy Park Stampede A man has been charged after his dog caused a deer ‘stampede’ in Bushy Park. A ten year-old boy was injured and taken to hospital. London Youth Games Virtual Inclusive Games is here! London Youth Games is back and will be putting disabled young Londoners at the heart of the competition for an eight-week virtual challenge series launching Tuesday 9 February. Richmond upon Thames won gold in the London Youth Games Virtual Cross-Country event last year and the borough is hoping to continue this success! This London Youth Games will feature inclusive challenges set by young disabled people with suggested adaptions to ensure as many young Londoners as possible can get involved. There will be three different weekly challenges released every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 9am on the website and on social media. Participants will then have until Monday at 12 noon to complete the challenges and submit their scores via the London Youth Games website. New podcast episode: Policing COVID-19 Listen to the 10-minute Talk Richmond episode on policing COVID-19 with Inspector Rebecca Robinson, the Inspector for Richmond Neighbourhoods. Inspector Robinson talks about what the police are doing to help with the COVID-19 response, including how they are enforcing the rules and issuing fines to those flouting them. Visit the News page for more stories 020 8894 1799 skyelectrical [email protected] Replacing your halogen recessed lights with LEDs will: SAVE ENERGY SAVE YOU MONEY PROVIDE BETTER LIGHTING So… CALL US TODAY FOR A FREE HOME ASSESSMENT AND QUOTE For a timed appointment please call Sky Electrical on 020 8894 1799 22 Fifth Cross Road, Twickenham, Middlesex, TW2 5LF www.skyelectrical.co.uk www.TwickenhamTribune.com 12th February 2021 - Page 2 www.RichmondTribune.com Now that the council’s ‘consultation’ on Twickenham Riverside is over, TwickerSeal is casting his memory back to happier times. He remembers the opening of the Diamond Jubilee Gardens on 23rd June 2012, attended by HRH Princess Alexandra. TwickerSeal remembers that as a wonderful moment, where the council created an amenity solely for the enjoyment of residents and the wider public. TwickerDuck lamented that these gardens were to be replaced by a loose collection of landscaping and that the gardens would be lost under the council’s new lacklustre plans. TwickerMole was surprised that there had only been 824 responses to the council’s latest ‘consultation’. Considering that 4,776 people had signed a petition in favour of a new lido on the site, 2,984 had signed a petition in favour of a design proposal from the Twickenham Riverside Park Team and 1,910 had supported a 2009 referendum against housing on the site, this seemed like a paltry response and hardly a mandate for the council’s plans; particularly as this response represents a meagre 7% of the Twickenham Riverside Ward, let alone the wider Twickenham resident population. www.TwickenhamTribune.com 12th February 2021 - Page 3 www.RichmondTribune.com Borough View By Graeme Stoten ‘Snowfall in Kneller’ Snow falls over Kneller Gardens, Meadway, West Twickenham. A popular place for Sports, Children’s playgrounds and Nature preservation, the Park now surrenders to a light dusking of snow and the resulting contrast of dark veteran boughs and ceramic white skies. www.TwickenhamTribune.com 12th February 2021 - Page 4 www.RichmondTribune.com COVID-19 Teresa Read From the World Health Organization: The independent expert team to study the origins of the COVID-19 virus has completed its trip to China. The expert team is working on a summary report which we hope will be published next week, and the full final report will be published in the coming weeks. The number of reported cases of COVID-19 globally has declined for the fourth week in a row, and the number of deaths also fell for the second consecutive week. These declines appear to be due to countries implementing public health measures more stringently. Earlier this week, WHO held a global meeting of patients, clinicians and other stakeholders to advance our understanding of what is officially called post-COVID-19 condition, or “long COVID”. WHO released a case reporting form that will allow more data to be collected on long COVID in a standardized way. This will help to improve the understanding, surveillance and clinical management of the condition. The Neanderthal Connection In the Covid article, Edition 195 of the Tribune, there was referral to interbreeding between our distant ancestors and archaic humans, such as Neanderthals and Denisovans and how this may affect our health today in the COVID-19 pandemic. (It should be noted that the evidence that Homo sapiens interbred with Neanderthals did not first emerge until 2010). Since then, further articles have been published in relation to the above Tribune article. On 30 September 2020 Nature published the article The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals: “These risk factors, however, do not fully explain why some people have no or mild symptoms whereas others have severe symptoms. Thus, genetic risk factors may have a role in disease progression.” However, on 6 October 2020 the following was published on bioRxiv: A genetic variant protective for COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals but of more moderate effect than the risk haplotype.” Then on 6 January 2021 Reuters reported “A specific form of a protein passed down from Neanderthals protects against severe COVID-19, and medications that boost levels of this protein could potentially help treat the disease, according to a study reported on medRxiv”. Clearly there is much research relating to COVID-19 and it seems that early migrations may play a part in understanding the disease. Further reading: Resources, African Origins, World InfoZone https://worldinfozone.com/features.php?section=AfricanOriginsResources www.TwickenhamTribune.com 12th February 2021 - Page 5 www.RichmondTribune.com COVID-19 Avoid places where the three Cs come together Crowds, Closed spaces, Close contact Follow strict personal hygiene advice, wear a mask and keep indoor areas well ventilated DO IT ALL www.twickenhamtribune.com Cases of COVID-19 Total cases to 12 February 2021 10,092 Richmond upon Thames 11,405 Kingston upon Thames 22,836 Hounslow Countries with High Numbers of Deaths Recorded by the World Health Organization Deaths Worldwide 2,355,339 USA 468,051 Peru 42,859 Brazil 234,850 Poland 40,177 Mexico 169,760 Indonesia 32,381 India 155,447 Turkey 27,093 The United Kingdom 114,851 Ukraine 24,058 Italy 92,338 Belgium 21,512 France 80,032 Canada 21,004 Russian Federation 78,687 Chile 19,262 Spain 63,704 Romania 19,135 Germany 63,635 Czechia 17,772 Iran 58,751 Ecuador 15,174 Colombia 56,733 Portugal 14,718 Argentina 49,674 Netherlands 14,589 South Africa 47,145 Hungary 13,444 www.TwickenhamTribune.com 12th February 2021 - Page 6 www.RichmondTribune.com The George, Twickenham By Simon Fowler The George in King Street, Twickenham is probably the town’s oldest surviving pub. It has been trading for nearly three hundred years. The Inn and the adjacent houses at 34-36 King Street are listed Grade II. Although, the building has been much altered a close inspection reveals something of its past. 32 King Street is a much altered late seventeenth century building, although it is likely that the George itself was no established until the 1730s. The George was Twickenham’s premier coaching inn. When Horace Walpole was trying to find the highwayman, who had held up his coach in 1782 he interviewed the ostler at the George because he had been told that the man had left his horse there. Walpole then falsely accused a corn-factor, who was dining at the inn, of being the robber. In 1823, it became a stop on the short-lived Royal Clarence stage-coach route George Inn 1860 which ran from the Red Lion Inn near Hampton Court to the New Inn at the Old Bailey twice daily. The promoters promised potential customers ‘New and Elegant Four-Inside Post Coaches’. Until well into the nineteenth century the George was Twickenham’s largest commercial building. As a result, it hosted a wide range of events. Many auctions of land and houses took place there. In May 1802, it saw the sale of ‘five substantial and sashed dwelling houses with bow windowed shops in the most eligible part of the town for trade.’ Coroners’ courts would occasionally meet at the George to investigate suicides and other suspicious deaths. In 1853, an unidentified body was retrieved from the Thames and taken to the pub to await the coroner of a man who had ‘in his pocket a tobacco box, fair complexion, and is supposed to be a bricklayer.’ But most importantly it fed and provided beds for locals and strangers alike.